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Annika Pham Prime Video has set the global launch date for its premium Swedish show “Paradis City,” a fast-paced dystopian actioner, based on “Snabba Cash” scribe Jens Lapidus’ eponymous stand-alone novel. The six-part series, due to launch March 7 exclusively on Prime Video, is being showcased as a works in progress today Jan.

Crime drama based on real-life events rarely delves into what happens after the case in question, but that is what the team behind buzzy Swedish series The Congregation: The Bride of Christ have done. The second season of the B-Reel Films-produced drama premieres at the ongoing Göteborg Film Festival where the crowd will see two instalments.

BBC Studios has named Seven.One Studios‘ Rose Hughes as its Senior Vice President for Global Format Sales.

Swedish screenwriter Pelle Rådström has won the first Nordic Series Script Award for his show Pressure Point. 

Thomas Vinterberg and Goteborg’s artistic director Pia Lundberg addressed controversial remarks of Swedish Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand. Lundberg admitted she was “surprised” by the Minister’s statement during the opening ceremony Jan. 24, which made for a “tumultuous” start of the event.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Always a frontrunner, “Black Crab” scribe Pelle Rådström has won Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award for his screenplay of “Pressure Point,” a tense, involved and compelling three-part miniseries on the build up to murders which shook Sweden to its core. The winner was announced at an awards ceremony on Jan.

Joey Fatone rocking his body to “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” in the hit Broadway musical “& Juliet,” you might think that you have been transported to an alternate boy-band universe.But yes, that is the *NSYNC crooner singing the signature bop by the Backstreet Boys in the reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” — where the heroine decides not kill to herself after finding her beloved beau dead.As Lance DuBois — a man-in-tights role he will be playing through March 16 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre — Fatone also performs another Backstreet fave, “Shape of My Heart.”“It’s gonna be interesting for people that are fans of Backstreet and fans of *NSYNC to come see that,” Fatone, 47, told The Post.Fatone also sings Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” and Ariana Grande’s “Break Free” in the musical set to the tunes of Swedish hitmaker Max Martin — from Britney Spears’ “… Baby One More Time” to Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”Martin also lent his golden pen to *NSYNC classics such as “Tearin’ Up My Heart” and “It’s Gonna Be Me.” Although the latter track is featured in “& Juliet,” it’s not one of Fatone’s numbers.“The first song we ever actually did with Max was ‘I Want You Back,’” said Fatone of *NSYNC’s debut single. “He gets it, you know? And he has a great team of people that get … what makes a hit and what has the hook.”After “I Want You Back” was released in the US in 1998, *NSYNC got an unwitting boost from the Backstreet Boys when, later that year, the “I Want It That Way” group turned down an offer to appear on the “Disney Channel in Concert” series.“They were exhausted,” said Fatone.

Miso Film, SVT, and Film i Väs have partnered to adapt Linn Ullmann’s novel ‘The Cold Song’ for television. 

Jamie Lang Miso Film Sweden is bringing Linn Ullmann’s acclaimed novel “The Cold Song” to the small screen in a six-episode series for SVT and Film i Väst. Directed by Mikael Marcimain, known for his work on “Blackwater” and “The Hunt for a Killer,” the series promises to be a gripping exploration of family dynamics and hidden secrets. “The Cold Song” delves into the lives of Siri, a restaurant owner, and her novelist husband Jon, who juggle their busy lives in Stockholm with raising their two daughters.

Annika Pham The three Scandinavian broadcasting partners in the Scandi Alliance – TV4 Sweden, TV2 Denmark and TV2 Norway – have announced their first joint drama bet “Royal Blood” (“Blått Blod”), currently in early development at Miso Film Norway, part of Miso Film, a Fremantle company. Head-writers of the mega-historical project are the multi-awarded Stephen Uhlander (“Nobel,” “The Girl from Oslo”) and Emma Broström (“STHLM Blackout,” “Knocking”) who serve as co-creators alongside Monica Boracco (“Mars & Venus”) and Katarina Launing (“Battle”). A director has yet to be attached.

Marta Balaga Thomas Vinterberg is ready for “The Brothers Lionheart,” based on Astrid Lindgren’s fantasy novel. “I’m writing it myself with the brilliant British writer Simon Stephens, so it’s a mix of things. The book is there, it’s not mine, but it’s a great journey we’re on.

Ruben Östlund has officially started principal photography in Budapest on his long-gestated movie The Entertainment System is Down.

Annika Pham After the submarine-set “Whiskey on the Rocks,” available on Disney + since Jan. 22 outside Sweden, French-Swedish producer Patrick Nebout of Dramanation is turning to the skies, with another Cold War satire spy thriller: the majority English-speaking “Learning to Fly,” Variety has learned in exclusivity.

Marta Balaga U.S. filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, now based in Denmark, worries his “home country is perhaps becoming a dictatorship.” “It remains to be seen.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Bjork has been doing press interviews to promote today’s livestream of her new Apple TV+ concert film “Cornucopia,” but a comment she made about Spotify during an interview with the Swedish outlet Dagens Nyheter is grabbing headlines on Friday: “Spotify is probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians.” She made the comment when discussing her preference for creating new music over touring. “The live part is, and always will be, a big part of what I do,” she said, in a translation from Swedish published in NME.

Björk has reflected on the world of streaming and said that she thinks Spotify is “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians”.She made the comments during a recent interview with Swedish outlet Dagens Nyheter, where she was promoting the upcoming livestream of her new concert film Cornucopia, which will debut on Apple TV+ later today (January 24).Later in the discussion, however, the artist recalled her approach towards making new music and shared how she has fortunately never felt pressured to develop a tour purely to create an income.Discussing her approach to developing new material, she said: “It is only in darkness that you can plant a new seed. For the seed to grow into a healthy and vigorous plant, you need privacy.

Annika Pham What are the limits of art, of freedom of expression in the case of neo-Nazis expressing anti-democratic views? Can rehabilitation programs reduce crime? Those are some of the pressing and relevant questions raised by the limited series “Pressure Point” (“Smärtpunkten”), for which Swedish scribe and creator Pelle Rådström is in the running for the Nordic region’s biggest screenwriter award – the Nordic Series Script Award. The three-part SVT series toplining David Dencik (“No Time to Die,” “The Chestnut Man”), Maria Sid (“All the Sins”), Martin Nick Alexandersson, Einar-Hugo Strömberg and Linus Gustafsson, is helmed by double Berlin Crystal Bear winner Sanna Lenken.

Stuart Miller A musical about crimes and identity; a searing drama about political and familial oppression; another about an activist searching for her missing husband; documentaries about sexual assault as told by the victim, about undoing centuries of imperialism and about Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank; and a beautiful and wordless animated film about animals cooperating to survive after a flood. These movies — double Golden Globe winner “Emilia Pérez,” “Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “I’m Still Here,” “Black Box Diaries,” “Dahomey,” “No Other Land” and Globe winner “Flow” — have two things in common: They were all made overseas and they’re all generating legitimate Oscar buzz beyond the international feature film category.

Spotify hosted a brunch one day before Donald Trump’s inauguration and donated $150,000 (£122,000) to the official ceremony.The music streaming service held the brunch to celebrate the “power of podcasts in this election”, inviting high-profile podcasters Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro and Tim Pool to the event, although Bloomberg reported that Rogan did not attend in the end.The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter also reported that the company donated the sum of $150,000 to the inauguration ceremony. In response to the report, Spotify claimed that “the donation aims to continue to expand our presence in Washington D.C.

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival launches its 48th edition this Friday, and for the first time in a decade, it will do so with a new Artistic Director. 

Hearts have completed the signing of defender Michael Steinwender from IFK Vernamo on a three-and-a-half year deal as Neil Critchley steps up his Jambos' rebuild.